The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we’ve been producing is footnotes.
Intellectual Quotes
The course of every intellectual, is he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.
The intellect is meant to expand perceptions, to help you grow in perpetual strength and complexity, and not to do any harm.
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
What is best for man? That he should possess intellect. If he lack intellect, then money whereby he will be respected. If he lack money, then a wife who will conceal his faults. If he lack a wife, then silence will hide his defects. And if he lack silence, then the best thing for him […]
Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.
He had the same trouble as all intellectuals: He knew too many things, and they confused him.
I once had a friend who was applying for a position in a large financial house… and the Big Boss said, rather truculently, ‘Do you consider yourself a member of the intelligentsia?’ ‘No,’ relied my friend, ‘A member of the intelligentsia is what I aspire some day to be.'”
